It’s really this simple for our leadership.

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Boyd, Plowman, and Fulmer should do this:
Bake up a nice batch of cornbread and maybe throw in some of Barb Jones famous dip in a nice going away basket.
Take it to Pruitt with his pink slip and 12 million dollar severance pay.
Then Zoom In all of our major boosters on a conference call.
Go thru the list of those coaches that we want to contact.
state how much money is expected to be needed to get each one.
then vote on whom to contact first, second, third, etc. those with the most zeroes they will sign on a check, get the most votes.
start calling those coaches agents. Most will be represented by Jimmy Sexton. Gag.
Dont stop until you get a yes.
hire him.
start winning games.
Easy peasy
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Boyd, Plowman, and Fulmer should do this:
Bake up a nice batch of cornbread and maybe throw in some of Barb Jones famous dip in a nice going away basket.
Take it to Pruitt with his pink slip and 12 million dollar severance pay.
Then Zoom In all of our major boosters on a conference call.
Go thru the list of those coaches that we want to contact.
state how much money is expected to be needed to get each one.
then vote on whom to contact first, second, third, etc. those with the most zeroes they will sign on a check, get the most votes.
start calling those coaches agents. Most will be represented by Jimmy Sexton. Gag.
Dont stop until you get a yes.
hire him.
start winning games.
Easy peasy
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You've got it backwards. Need a replacement BEFORE Pruitt is fired. And I mean Freeze
 
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It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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I'm not.
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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I wish I was zen like that.
im just not. Plus, I’m too old to be that patient waiting on us to become relevant again.
 
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Firing Pruitt without lining up the required money and having a lot of confidence in getting a more proven coach to replace him would not help.
At this point I'm mostly hoping he's learned to give Chaney complete control of the offense including selection of assistant coaches and quarterbacks.
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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EHNT! Buzzer sound for wrong answer.
He's had three years here and has failed miserably! It's way past time to move on from him.
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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We have done that with Kiffin...didn't work out, with Dooley... didn't work out, with Butch... didn't work out, and Pruitt... didn't work out. We have spent 12 years bring patient and supporting. How is that working out for us?
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
We have done that with Kiffin...didn't work out, with Dooley... didn't work out, with Butch... didn't work out, and Pruitt... didn't work out. We have spent 12 years bring patient and supporting. How is that working out for us?
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He just needs more time to fail spectacularly.
 
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Its gets a lot less simple when all those people listed dont agree on the path.

-first to fire and buyout the current coach
-second to agree on the replacement

Recently they not only disagree but start pulling to totally different directions.

In short, it sounds simple. Reality is, its not.
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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In the last ten years, who have you seen bounce back with the years like Pruitt has had and gone on to become an extremely successful coach in the power 5? I would understand 3 wins in year one, 5 in year two and 8 this year. I would completely get that and would support Pruitt despite the major flaws and irritants I see about him. The up and down record and the continuous instability should tell everyone all they need to know. If 8 wins a year is the pinnacle of Tennessee football, then I suppose have fun with being mediocre to bad every year. I know Tennessee should be at least on par with where Georgia is right now.
 
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I am really getting tired of losing and paying millions in buyouts of inferior coaches. Dooley was floundering at a small school, but we hired him because of his last name. Then, we hired Jones who just rode on the coat-tails of the previous, much better, coach at that school. Finally, we hired Pruitt who had not been a head coach, but was a good DC. Our coaching hires have been a crap shoot. It is obvious Pruitt isn't the guy.

In the past, I would have been satisfied if we hired a guy from a small school that had made drastic improvements. We have not even tried that seemingly obvious formula.

I am really worried that our Vols are very near the point where you can't recover for decades. We need a PROVEN winner to rescue this program. That man is Freeze or equivalent.
 
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The assumption that the University of Tennessee has any leadership is where the process breaks down, in my opinion Blonde Donde is worthless, blamed the Greek system organizations for the loss of football players to COVID tracing and tracking protocol, many of the national Greek organization leadership that met with her following her attempts to suspend their campus chapters came away less than impressed and wondering who actually ran the Knoxville campus, in my opinion Fulmer is only concerned about Fulmer, he must have spent that entire $6 million Tennessee paid him to go away, such that he is back, looting the department for pennies, nickels and times, completely in over his head in what was supposed to be an interim position, with no skillset to network through the current landscape of contemporary sports business and management, the game itself passed him by 15 years ago, his tenure as AD is marked already as predictable failure, he is not the only person who loves the university and all things Vol, he's just the only one getting $1.3 million a year for it and where is our university president who should step in to clean up this sheetshow on behalf of the State of Tennessee, but in my opinion he would rather dawdle on a new baseball stadium for his minor league baseball team in Sevierville, lining up taxpayer money to build it and redevelop some of the worn out property he owns in downtown Knoxville, rather than focusing on the day job of all things University of Tennessee, the Pruitt fiasco is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problem, a problem within a university deathly ill from a wholesale lack of leadership, polluted with mercenaries, hangers on at the trough, placed their not for their stellar credentials and vast accomplishment in the university field, but parked their by their cronies to execute their agenda.
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
We have done that with Kiffin...didn't work out, with Dooley... didn't work out, with Butch... didn't work out, and Pruitt... didn't work out. We have spent 12 years bring patient and supporting. How is that working out for us?
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We weren’t patient with any of them... as soon as things didn’t look great we bailed, same with Phil tbh.
 
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Skippy95 said:
In the last ten years, who have you seen bounce back with the years like Pruitt has had and gone on to become an extremely successful coach in the power 5? I would understand 3 wins in year one, 5 in year two and 8 this year. I would completely get that and would support Pruitt despite the major flaws and irritants I see about him. The up and down record and the continuous instability should tell everyone all they need to know. If 8 wins a year is the pinnacle of Tennessee football, then I suppose have fun with being mediocre to bad every year. I know Tennessee should be at least on par with where Georgia is right now.
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Let’s hope for the best... all we can do right now, again just spinning wheels and adding to our own frustrations if not. Pruitt is here to stay from all indications. I’m choosing to get on board to enjoy something I love
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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If Bama thought like this they would still have Mike Shula! They didn’t want to accept mediocrity and leadership identified their man and wouldn’t leave Miami till he signed. We on the other hand want to give Pruitt more time..
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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I respectfully ask: what constitutes "support?"

If there was evidence that a representative of the university was involved in illegal, immoral or unethical behavior, would you call for his or her dismissal? If so, I would consider your position to be in support of the university. I likely would call for termination, as I certainly would not want that sort of behavior associated with my alma mater.

So, why is calling for the same in a case where a representative of the university has displayed gross incompetence for an extended period of time any less supportive of the university? Just as in the other example, I do not want that sort of behavior associated with my alma mater.
 
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TN is no longer a top destination for HC's. It is now a dysfunctional place that fires coaches every 4-5 yrs. But some of you still think all the top coaches in CFB would leave their current jobs and jump at the chance to coach at TN. These type coaches have $, they need somewhere they can coach long term and have total control of the FB program. Unfortunately that is just not true at TN is why we have the fiasco we have in HC's. IMO there is no choice but to risk an up and comer coach and hope it works or get a once defamed coach like Freeze. Its just where we are.
 
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I just feel like calling for an ADs head that has been largely successful concerning every other sport besides Football is narrow minded. Has Pruitt shown he is a capable coach, absolutely, does he need time to be a better head coach again yes. Let’s buckle up and support a guy I think wants to bring us back to prominence.
 
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I truly believe Pruitt wants to bring TN back to be relevant in the SEC and national level but he has to make a huge jump in being that better coach next season or he will have to learn somewhere else. I hope he does make the jump but its a long jump for him.
 
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goooooovols said:
It really is simple, let’s choose to be patient, support our team and university... including the current coach and administration. We are working against the objective right now.
I love tennessee football, I’m going to give support rather than criticism cause only one of those will actually add any value to my life or others.
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I've done this for over a decade now and it just keeps getting worse. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. IMO, I'd rather see Tennessee football go away completely before I'd see it continue to go down the path it's going now.
 
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tnmarktx said:
I've done this for over a decade now and it just keeps getting worse. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. IMO, I'd rather see Tennessee football go away completely before I'd see it continue to go down the path it's going now.
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People say this, hell I say this but the fact is I’ll be here and supporting UT regardless what happens.
 
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